I'm was looking for this kind of Software for a long time, and be glad that afriend of mine find your side :-)

I play around a bit and have some feature-requests. Don't know if it is possible....

1. It would be nice if i could "bind" an Applikation to an fixed specified Grid-Number. For example I'd like my Browseralways open in Grid No. 1 and my Texteditor in Grid 2 etc. This means Gridmove has to detect a starting Applikation andshould move it the the specified Grid. May be it's possible to mark a Grid as default, so all unconfigured Apps will be openedthere.

2. Some webpages have the bad habit to maximize the browser-window to fullscreen. Is it possible to set a grid to be lockedfor resize/maximize so an applikation snaped to that grid will not react on the resize-command anymore?

3. It would be nice to define Layers of Grids. Instead of having a Desktop-Manager with multiple Desktops(don't have that, but i hope that clear the idea...) i would like to have few Layers with Grids where i cansnap Apps on it and a hotkey for scrolling through the layers. This means wenn i switch fromlayer one to two all apps in layer one move in the background and all apps on layer (grid) two come to foreground. In combination with the grids there are a lot more possibilities to arrange windows. So i could make one layer with myworking apps and one with browser + Email-Client so i can simply switch between them. So it will also possible to arrange the layers that the area of where the email-Client is will always be visible...

Hope you can understand my explanation Let me know what you think of these ideas.

1: There's a way better solution for this: winwarden. It lets you do exactly what you asked.

2: Winwarden can do that too, IIRC

3: To be honest... That sounds exactly like a multiple desktops app. It's impossible for me to make something nearly as good as the multiple options out there (the one i recommend is dexpot) and i'd just be reinventing the wheel.

Rgb9001: What you're looking for is a bit different from what gridmove does. But i've seen a program that does exactly what you want.. Unfortunatelly, i can't recall its name now and thus am unnable to find it

Hi again jgpaiva,I know its been a while, but were you able to dig up any more info on this topic?Thanks,

Sorry for bothering you again, had to reinstall windows, downloaded .53 and win-arrows doesnt work anymore am i missing something? Also now i use 2nd monitor for notebook too and would be nice to have some shortcut for moving window between monitors (without grids just throw it to another monitor, something like win-pgup/pgdn, and actuallly maximize/minimize from kybd could be a nice addition too...). And reload with keyboard shortcut since auto-reload didnt work back then. Thanks again.

.53 still has that feature, but you have to enable it through the ini, like in the other version... It's the "sequential move" key, set it to '1'.There is already the "reload by keyboard" feature: press win+g and then 'r' Currently, you can add a minimize/maximize element to your grid (i think the edge grid includes a mazimize element) and then press win+#

Ah, sequental move, thanks i just forgot. Actually i think that should be added to menu, no? Win-G-R is nice ofcourse but im speaking about "direct" reload hotkey, same with maximize/minimize and screen move.The thing is when i view notebook on 2nd monitor i had to switch inputs to see windows which were opened on that monitor or press alt-space-m (move) and keep 'left' pressed for a while to see it on 1st screen.

Ah, sequental move, thanks i just forgot. Actually i think that should be added to menu, no? Win-G-R is nice ofcourse but im speaking about "direct" reload hotkey, same with maximize/minimize and screen move.The thing is when i view notebook on 2nd monitor i had to switch inputs to see windows which were opened on that monitor or press alt-space-m (move) and keep 'left' pressed for a while to see it on 1st screen.

The problem is that gridmove already registers quite a few hotkeys, and if i add more of those, very soon you want to use another app that has hotkeys, and gridmove has it registered, see what i mean?

1: There's a way better solution for this: winwarden. It lets you do exactly what you asked.

2: Winwarden can do that too, IIRC

3: To be honest... That sounds exactly like a multiple desktops app. It's impossible for me to make something nearly as good as the multiple options out there (the one i recommend is dexpot) and i'd just be reinventing the wheel.

I'm just reporting that Brandon told me GridMove works perfectly under Windows Vista. I'd like to get a few more opinions on this, to make sure it's stable in Vista, since i can't test it myself.

I have always used GridMove on Windows Vista. It almost always works fine.

I have only observed two strange behaviors, and unfortunately I haven't recorded the details so you will probably not find this report useful. Nevertheless, here they are:

1) Two or three times, I have noticed that there were multiple (sometimes even more than ten) instances of GridMove running. It showed up multiple times in Task Manager, and it showed up multiple times in the notification area. I think I remember that this was a time when I was experimenting with different screen configurations, so lots of resolution changes were involved. GridMove continued to work fine. When I noticed, I just right-clicked on each of the GridMove icons in the notification area and closed them until there was only one left.

2) About half of the time, when I restart Vista, after logging in, I see a dialog that says that a previous instance of GridMove could not be terminated. It asks if I want to wait. If I answer yes, everything works fine.

Well, what you mentioned is a known problem, that i solved by removing the auto-reload. The problem is that sometimes when the resolution changed, when gridmove reloaded, it'd stay running. I can't understand why that happens, because it's related to the way Autohotkey does the reload.If you'd like to solve that, just download the most recent version.

About gridmove on vista... I'm now running vista, and i've been having a few problems (hotkeys not being released, and the overlay moving too slow, mostly).But i intend to make a review of gridmove sometime in the future, and then i'll add that info to gridmove's page

jgpaivaI have been using GridMove for a year and a half now and I use it daily (still with my custom grid). It is one of the most useful programs on my computer and whenever friends see me snap a window into place they are amazed and wonder how I did it. I recently dual-booted my computer with windows vista ultimate 64 bit and was pleasantly surprised to discover that grid move is compatible. I have a 30" monitor with a 19" widescreen monitor in portrait orientation next to it so I rarely maximize windows. Instead I snap them to half or quarter screen areas. It seems like you have been busy fixing bugs and implementing new features so I will have to check out the latest version of GridMove to see what's changed. Thanks a lot and congratulations on your success!

I recently have moved to Vista64, and also was glad to find that gridmove works.Unfortunatelly, i haven't been able to update gridmove for quite a while (been VERY busy with school stuff) and there are still some loose ends, but it's good to know that it's still usable enough for people to use it everyday

What I did is that I assigned winsplit shortcuts to mouse and window titles with powerpro.So if I middle click to right portion of any title bar my window moves, resizes(half of the screen size) and snaps to right sideSo if I middle click to "minimize" my window moves, resizes(half of the screen size) and snaps to bottom of the screenAnd I covered all the corners(left, top) etc this way. You do not need to use shortcuts or enable disable anything.

I thought this was a damn good hack and works beautifully. If anyone is interested I can give my powerpro and winsplit settings.

Also you can do this without winsplit in powerpro but I found this hack easier.

but I just love all those preset (i.e. made by others, in particular jgpaiva) options - window #1 takes two-thirds of the screen, window #2 takes the other third, or 3/4 or whatever...this way, that way ... I'm a fan of powerpro but only use it fairly basically, but I think in this case, I suspect its worth running the other app = gridmove !

I lost track of this thread for some time. Could you update me on a feature request you have accepted. That is moving around the current window using the modifier key + arrow keys. This assumes that each for each grid definition, the user defines the logic of the ordering of the grids. For example, modifier key + left/right arrow moves in this order: Grid1-> Grid2 -> etc. Have you implemented this ?

I think that feature is currently being discussed in another thread, but i still haven't gone around to implementing it..Unfortunatelly, it has been too much time since the last time i updated gridmove, i've been packed with school work